Latest Enriched uranium Stories

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran has begun enriching a new batch of uranium just days ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to suspend atomic fuel work or face possible sanction, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog, plans to disclose Iran's new enrichment work in a report due out on Thursday, the newspaper said, citing officials in Washington and European capitals who have been monitoring Iran's efforts....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran has begun enriching a new batch of uranium just days ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to suspend atomic fuel work or face possible sanction, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog, plans to disclose Iran's new enrichment work in a report due out on Thursday, the newspaper said, citing officials in Washington and European capitals who have been monitoring Iran's efforts....

By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it would never stop uranium enrichment despite a looming U.N. deadline designed to ensure it cannot develop nuclear weapons. But chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani reiterated Iran's stance that it was ready to hold talks on its nuclear program. Six world powers have offered a package of economic incentives to the Islamic Republic if it halts uranium enrichment. "Iran will continue its uranium enrichment. We want to produce our...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo police on Friday arrested five executives from a Japanese company suspected of exporting devices that could be used in producing nuclear weapons, one of which was discovered in Libya, Japanese media said. Mitutoyo Corp., which produces precision measuring equipment, is suspected of exporting to Malaysia without a license two devices that could be used in uranium enrichment, Kyodo news agency said. Police have been investigating possible export routes from Japan...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo police were planning on Friday to arrest several executives from a Japanese company suspected of exporting equipment that could be used in producing nuclear weapons, Kyodo news agency said. Mitutoyo Corp., which produces precision measuring equipment, is suspected of exporting to Malaysia without a license two devices that could be used in uranium enrichment, the report said. Television showed police entering Mitutoyo premises in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. A police...

By Louis Charbonneau BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany added European weight to U.S. displeasure with Iran's reply to proposals by world powers in a nuclear standoff, saying on Thursday Tehran's insistence on enriching uranium hindered a negotiated solution. Two Iranian academics, one of whom has had close ties to the government, listed questions they said Iran had posed about what it saw as vagueness in an offer from six big powers of trade and technology incentives to stop nuclear fuel...

By Louis Charbonneau BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany added European weight to U.S. displeasure with Iran's reply to proposals by world powers in a nuclear standoff, saying on Thursday Tehran's insistence on enriching uranium hindered a negotiated solution. Two Iranian academics, one of whom has had close ties to the government, listed questions they said Iran had posed about what it saw as vagueness in an offer from six big powers of trade and technology incentives to stop nuclear fuel...

By Edmund Blair TEHRAN (Reuters) - Six world powers were studying Iran's offer of more talks to resolve a nuclear dispute on Wednesday, but it was not clear whether Tehran's response went far enough to avert the threat of United Nations sanctions. Iran said its reply on Tuesday to the powers' nuclear incentives offer contained ideas that would allow serious talks about its standoff to start straightaway. But there was no sign Tehran had agreed to a key U.N. Security Council demand that...

By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, the main demand in a nuclear package backed by six world powers, the deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said on Monday. Mohammad Saeedi said Tehran would formally respond to the package on Tuesday, a deadline Iran had earlier set itself. He also said Iran would press ahead with plans to produce heavy water, a move a Western diplomat said was unhelpful in the nuclear standoff but was not a...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it would not suspend uranium enrichment, ruling out the main demand in a package of proposals backed by six nations aimed at resolving its nuclear standoff with the West. Iran has so far shown no sign it will accept the offer made in June by the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, but Tehran has said it would give its formal response by Tuesday, August 22. "We are not going to suspend (enrichment). The issue was that...